The development of new drugs that are both safe and effective is paramount for the future of cancer chemoprevention. Sporn and Liby critically discuss the issues that have hampered the advances of chemoprevention in the oncology field, and emphasize the need for discovery of new targets and chemopreventive agents, offering new insights into how new approaches tested in the scientific setting could be introduced in clinical practice.
- Michael B Sporn
- Karen T Liby
